Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog The mesmeric power that AI holds over Wall Street was in evidence again last night as Dell homed in on the huge backlog of orders for "AI-optimized" servers rather than fiscal 2024's overall declining sales, and the share price soared. "Our strong AI-optimized server momentum continues, with orders increasing nearly 40 percent …
Who knows? It's new, shiny, and extremely poorly understood by most (even educated) people, so carnival barkers will continue to make money hand over fist for quite some time. We've already seen it screwing up a ton of stuff, and there are some thorny rights issues, but no major[1] disasters just yet. Probably, in a couple of years, the shiny will wear off and there will be the Next Big Thing (tm) running the hype train. LLMs that are actually useful will at least be rather mature and not in everyone's face. For the past year, I've been writing a tabletop game setting for the Pathfinder ruleset,[2] and honestly would be willing to pay to use that stuff, provided that it was trained on a corpus that creators would be getting paid properly for, to do full-colour illustrations or generate non-essential major NPCs and famous inns/taverns/whatever. I'd never trust such a thing for anything "essential" in that arena, but I could see use in adding just a bit of flavour if fed the right prompts.
[1] Read either very bloody or influential people losing tons of money
[2] I will eventually release it into the wild, once I can get arsed to do real editing, but at most would set up a donations jar, since I don't expect to make money off something like that.
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